Where a person interposes his interest and good offices to procure a pardon, it ought to be done gratuitously and not for money.

Lord Eldon, C.J., Norman r. Cole (1801), 3 Esp. 253.

Where the King has no share, and the King's Serjeant or Attorney-General prosecute not, and the King's name is not so much as mentioned, and only by the Commons of England, which the Courts Westminster cannot punish ; it is you that have the interest in the suit, and all the Commons of England.

It is the duty of the Lord Chancellor's place, if he thought it not a good pardon, to inform the King of it.

Per Serjeant Ellis, Proceedings against Thomas Earl of Danby for high treason (1678—1685), 11 How. St. Tr. 773.

The regular way of of pardons is by the Attorney-General and the Solicitor-General. &c. They are men of the law, and might stop it in their office, and the rest of the offices, &c . . . . To pardon before trial, when the King knows not what fact he is to pardon, is a dangerous precedent. . . . The King cannot pardon a man, an impeachment depending.